ref: https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/788052566 Backstory: Eldrix doesn’t remember anything of their childhood. Really, no yokai does, but that’s besides the point. One day, they were checking out the underside of a bridge (don’t ask why, you don’t wanna know), and they were dragged into the abyss by the Master of Time, a demon that took the form of a deer-shaped void with blue eyes. Master of Time integrates itself with them, they return to the Hidden City, but here’s where it gets slightly interesting. With this new power, the ability to control time itself, they… …open a clock shop? This is no ‘run of the mill’ clock shop, though. The second-floor products are reserved for select clientele (Big Mama, Nexus champions, etc.), and are things like cloaking brooches, mystic enhancers, and all sorts of metaphysical stuff. Moving on, Big Mama is afraid of Eldrix, and she basically runs the city’s criminal underbelly. She incurs a debt to them, which allows them to now pull every string and control the tiny pocket of safety that is the Hidden City.